“There has for some time past been in evidence a sinister move in certain quarters to suppress, conceal or eliminate primary sources in Arabic, Persian and Urdu testifying to the temple demolition.”

— Harsh Narain

The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources (1993)

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